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...Commons passed a bill legalizing homosexual acts in private between consenting adults, and two weeks ago it followed that up with another bill liberalizing the grounds for abortion. Last week a government committee studying the question of lowering the age of majority from 21 to 18 years could not refrain from noting the sexual implications involved: the bill might, said the committee, by reducing the age of consent, "take the cartridge out of the shotgun marriage." Said the Marquess of Salisbury recently: "Practices that a few years ago could hardly have been mentioned at all in decent society...
...reached in these pages three weeks ago that "given [Mrs. Bunting's] history of making decisions first and seeking student opinion afterward, one can only smile at the hunger strikers' suggestion that their committee become a 'permanent' and 'independent' part of Radcliffe's administrative process. Mrs. Bunting's repeated refrain at RGA meetings, that Radcliffe is run both by its students and administrators, has always been a deception. And always will...
HAPPY TOGETHER (White Whale). It's spring, and the voice of the Turtles is heard in our land. Their refrain: "I can't see me lovin' nobody but you for all my life." The chart-climbing group runs to ABC melodies, soft harmonies and unabashed sentiments. "It may be corny, but I hear wedding bells," admits the head Turtle...
...project that has picked up its own momentum. And given her history of making decisions first and seeking student opinion afterward, one can only smile at the hunger strikers' suggestion that their committee become a "permanent" and "independent" part of Radcliffe's administrative process. Mrs. Bunting's repeated refrain at RGA meetings, that Radcliffe is run both by its students and administrators, has always been a deception. And always will...
...obliged, however reluctantly, to defend ourselves," says Feisal, whose country is also infiltrated with pro-Nasser terrorists and has been bombed by Egyptian planes. The British are helping Feisal strengthen his army and build an air defense system. In London, he is expected to ask the British to refrain for the moment from giving arms aid to royalist guerrillas in Yemen so that the latter do not incite a show down with Egypt and Nasser's puppet in Yemen, Abdullah Sallal, before Saudi Arabia is ready to fight...